Supreme Court orders countrywide screening of new prisoners entering jails

Pakistani policemen stand guard outside the Karachi Central Prison in Karachi on October 13, 2014. Pakistani officials said they had thwarted an Islamist group's bid to tunnel into Karachi's main prison and stage a jailbreak that could have freed 100 dangerous militants. The government paramilitary Rangers raided a house where members of a militant group were trying to tunnel into the nearby Karachi Central Jail, Rangers Colonel Tahir Mehmood told a press conference. AFP PHOTO/ Rizwan TABASSUM

Posted By: Fahim Ahmed April 1, 2020

Islamabad (HRNW) The Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday coronavirus screening to be conducted of all new prisoners sent to jails nationwide.

It said that if symptoms of the virus were found in anyone, they should be immediately tested and quarantined. For this purpose, it has been ordered that isolation and quarantine centres be built inside jails across the country.

Earlier this week, the courts allowed the release of under-trial prisoners to contain the spread of the coronavirus in Pakistan. However, an appeal was filed in the Supreme Court challenging their release.

Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed had said that coronavirus is a serious problem but they can’t allow the release of prisoners involved in heinous crimes.

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